(Finance) – A cautious start for the Wall Street stock market, in the aftermath of the new records that brought the Dow Jones above the psychological threshold of 40,000 points.
The focus of investors always remains concentrated on central bankswith insiders betting on a decline in inflation and a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserveafter the weak increase in consumer prices in April.
On the macroeconomic front, data on the Leading indicators of April, the only one on the agenda today. On the corporate side, Walmart announced a better-than-expected quarterly result, thanks largely to online grocery sales.
Among US indices, the Dow Jones it stands at 39,896 points on the day before; along the same line, theS&P-500, which continues the day at 5,300 points. On equality the Nasdaq 100 (+0.05%); on the same line, without direction theS&P 100 (+0.01%).